Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special public existence. (All Close's sitters were his friends, mostly artists such as the sculptor Richard Serra or the painter Joe Zucker, none of them well known at the time. He has never done a commissioned portrait.) He began his big faces in the late 1960s, working directly from black-and-white photographs he took himself. The results were very strange. The images weren't "expressive." Their obsession is with fact, an overload of fact--not in the least with character. Their eyes don't contact the viewer: they look right through you. They were as anticosmetic...
DIED. DAVID HICKS, 69, 1960s avatar of interior design who dressed the homes of the rich and famous with wall-to-wall flamboyance and fidgety fuss; of cancer; in Oxfordshire, England. Hicks, a sworn enemy of chintz, eschewed the staid flowery prints in favor of eye-popping solids, which he boldly mingled with modern paintings and patterned carpets. Among his chichi clientele: King Fahd and royals Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who became his peers after he married Lady Pamela Mountbatten...
...example, money allotted for polio research was rerouted to other medical research in the early 1960s after a vaccine for polio was found...
Since the 1960s, The Crimson has had a reputation of being too white, too male, too "old boy," too liberal. And of late, too Jewish...
From there, Breggin said he studied to become a doctor and psychiatrist. However, he said, the profession took a serious downturn in the 1960s...